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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Joseph Cross

Titel

Mouvance and the art of fiction in performance in manuscripts of a Demotic Egyptian novella

Ist Teil von

• Manuscript and Text Cultures, 2024-03, Vol.2 (2), p.168–200-168–200

Ort / Verlag

Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Substantial textual variation found across manuscripts of a Demotic Egyptian novella, The prebend of Amun, bears upon closer examination the features of mouvance, a kind of textual impermanence found in written versions of literature for which performance contexts are not only ongoing but are constitutive of their very textual shape. Alongside this mouvance, manuscripts of this work also maintain a high level of similarity and coherence down to the phrasal and word level. I argue that this unique combination of sameness and mouvance points to the desire of performers who possessed libretto-like copies of The prebend of Amun to tweak their texts in order to match their understanding of this work of prose fiction.